“As of 2019, the department had spent more than $24 million contracting with IT company Business & Decision, North America to build and maintain the software program, known as ACIS, that is used to manage the inmate population in state prisons.”
Arizona passed a law in 2019 letting some nonviolent inmates earn early release. The $24 million prison software can’t do the math, so people stay locked up past their dates. Staff raised it for more than a year and leadership did nothing. A missing feature in a contractor’s code now counts as a prison sentence.